"I already knew the value of family, but my journey with Saroo had taught me something very personal: without it we are merely chaff in the wind. "Arriving home early the next day, I was met by my own family, Belle and Ada, and thanked the heavens that I had them. He said he "was utterly exhausted" by the time he sent the finished manuscript to the publishers from a hotel room in Kolkata.īut while Dr Buttrose learnt much about the resilience of Saroo Brierley, who he described as "very direct and down to earth" and "more Aussie than me", he also gained insight about himself.ĭr Buttrose recalled how he felt upon leaving India in his blog. "When he arrived in Kolkata, that's what he's got memories of." Finishing the storyĭr Buttrose was given a tight three-month deadline to research and write the 70,000-word book. The 2016 film version, Lion, stars Nicole Kidman, Dev Patel, and Rooney Mara. "I said, 'Is this prompting memories, are you getting any thoughts back?', and not much came back. Our Reading Guide for A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley includes Book Club. I was trying to get Saroo to go back into that five-year-old mind. "As we travelled across India looking at the vistas of chemical plants and paddy fields with oxen. Entdecken Sie Lion: A Long Way Home, Brierley, Saroo, Used Good Book in der großen Auswahl bei eBay. He also accompanied him to the town of Khandwa where Mr Brierley had found his birth family including his mother, brother and sister some months before.ĭr Buttrose had found an interpreter in the town to help with the meeting, given Mr Brierley had forgotten much of his Hindi having lived in Australia for so long. "Some memories were clearer, but others we needed to go over again and again, because his memories were hazy or something wasn't quite adding up." Retracing Saroo's journeyĭr Buttrose was with Mr Brierley when he retraced his steps for the first time on board the Kolkata Mail train and then through the chaotic streets of Kolkata. "Between interview sessions, Saroo would go home, search his memories, write down notes and bullet points, and then we would sit down together and go over his recollections again," he wrote. In a blogpost written this week, Dr Buttrose recalled those early stages of the book. Saroo Brierley works as a motivational speaker and lives in Hobart. ![]() Not knowing the name of his family or where he was from, he survived for weeks on. Saroo had become lost on a train in India at the age of five. When Saroo Brierley used Google Earth to find his long-lost home town half a world away, he made global headlines. He recorded hours of interviews, prompting Mr Brierley to return to his earliest memories to piece together his childhood. A true story of survival and triumph against incredible odds, as seen on 60 Minutes. "It's as good a job as you could have done from that book I finished writing in that hotel room, translated to film." Piecing together faded memoriesĭr Buttrose, who lives in Sydney, had been to India several times and said he believed this was partly the reason Penguin Books chose him for the job.Īs a ghostwriter, he was told to write in "Saroo's voice" and so had to study his idioms and manner of speech over several meetings before the pair travelled to India in 2012. "The screenplay is excellent, the direction by Garth Davis is really superb, particularly how he deals with the actor playing young Saroo, who when he saw the film, had never seen a film before. "From the very first time I came in contact with the story, I knew it was a fantastic story," Dr Buttrose told ABC Radio Sydney. This edition features new material from Saroo about his childhood, including a new foreword and a Q&A about his experiences and the process of making the film.The story is brought to screens in the Hollywood film Lion. And one day, after years of searching, he miraculously found what he was looking for and set off on a journey to find his mother. When he was a young man, the advent of Google Earth led him to pore over satellite images of India for landmarks he recognized. ![]() ![]() Despite being happy in his new family, Saroo always wondered about his origins. Not knowing the name of his family or where he was from, he survived for weeks on the streets of Kolkata before being taken into an orphanage and adopted by a couple in Australia. When Saroo Brierley used Google Earth to find his long-lost hometown half a world away, he made global headlines. The young listeners' edition of the true story that inspired Lion, the major motion picture starring Dev Patel, David Wenham, Rooney Mara, and Nicole Kidman.
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